Uneasy images: Contested representations of gender, modernity and nationalism in pre-war Liberia

Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-136

  Moran, Mary H ^a  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

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